Category Archives: Womens Cycling

With the current interest in womens cycling at a high, and with the focus being on Yorkshire with the Tour de France next year. A group of women are trying to get a womens only chaingang started in the Aire Valley.

If you have any aspirations of getting into road racing but need more experiance of riding in a group or you are already experianced but would like to ride with other women instead of trying to keep up with the mens chaingangs. Please take a look at the Facebook page.

As usual the womens ride will be meeting in Glusburn Institute car park at 6.45pm and setting off at 7pm.

This weeks route is 20 mile-ish route with a few small hills. We Any kind of bike is welcome as the pace is friendly but to really enjoy the ride a drop handlebar is recommended.

If you have any worries about not being fit enough or not your not sure if you can keep up, please don’t be worried as nobody is left behind. Also the great thing about cycling is your fitness really improves even with just a few weeks riding.

You don’t need to worry about being a member of the club in order to try it out but if you come regular, membership is £15 for individuals.

So come an give it a try.

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This weeks women’s ride will follow the same format we’ve been running for the last few week. A 15 mile-ish route with a few small hills. Any kind of bike is welcome as the pace is friendly but if you get enjoy it a drop handlebar is recommended.

If you have any worries about not being fit enough or not your not sure if you can keep up, please don’t be worried as nobody is left behind. Also the great thing about cycling is your fitness really improves even with just a few weeks riding.

You don’t need to worry about being a member of the club in order to try it out but if you come regular, membership is £15 for individuals.

So come an give it a try. We meet at Glusburn Institute at 6.40pm and set off at 6.50pm. Hopefully we’ll see you there.

The weather wasn’t great but it wasn’t as bad as it looked. In fact it dried up and the sun almost came out. Anyway 3 braved the elements for a great ride to Skipton and back down the Aire Valley to Glusburn.

So if your thinking of giving it a go come and join us next week, same time same place.

Just a reminder that the first womens ride will take place tomorrow. Meeting in Glusburn Institute car park at 6.40pm and setting off at 6.50pm.

This is the first week so it will be it will be a shorter flatter ride to see how everybody gets on. There’s no need to worry about the pace being too fast. The idea is to ride as a group and have fun. There will be some small hills to avoid riding on the main roads.